Leaps of Consciousness

Coherent thought can cure illness.

In Pure Human, Gregg Braden relates the story of watching a film about a healing a life-threatening tumour in a woman’s bladder. Western doctors had told her it was ‘inoperable’, and she had tried many alternative protocols before arriving in the ‘medicineless hospital’ in Beijing, China, in 1995.

The woman had come to the clinic as a last resort because everything else had failed.

The clinic first emphasised personal responsibility for her own health and required to adopt new ways of living, moving and breathing. These preliminary steps were vital as otherwise the healing may only be temporary or ineffective. The new modalities strengthened and stimulated her body’s life-force or chi.

The instructor created a context so the film would make sense. The purpose of the film was to show that the power to heal already lives in each of us. It was not an advertisement for the clinic or an invitation for everyone with a life-threatening condition to rush to Beijing.

“The key to helping is the ability to focus emotion and energy in our bodies, or in the body of a loved one (with permission), in a non-invasive and compassionate way."

The woman lay on a hospital gurney and was wide awake, conscious and had had no drugs or sedatives. An ultrasound wand created a real-time image of the mass inside her body.

The film lasted less than four minutes. The practitioners had agreed on a phrase that would reinforce a special kind of feeling inside them. It was the powerful, focused and felt sense that the woman was already healed.

At first, it seemed nothing as nothing was happening. Suddenly, in real time, the tumour began quivering and out of view, and within seconds, it faded and then vanished from the screen. It was gone.

The English translation of their phrase reminded Braden of a principle revealed by Neville Goddard, a 20th-century Bajan philosopher: “Make your future dream a present fact … by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled.”